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Weakly vs Slightly - What's the difference?

weakly | slightly |

As adverbs the difference between weakly and slightly

is that weakly is with little strength or force while slightly is slenderly; delicately.

As an adjective weakly

is frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak.

weakly

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Frail, sickly or of a delicate constitution; weak.
  • * 1885', I lay in '''weakly case and confined to my bed for four months before I was able to rise and health returned to me. — Sir Richard Burton, ''The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night , Night 18
  • * 1889', I'd always been but ' weakly , / And my baby was just born; / A neighbour minded her by day, / I minded her till morn. — WB Yeats, ‘The Ballad of Moll Magee’
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
  • *:"Oh, a huge crab," Jacob murmured—and begins his journey on weakly legs on the sandy bottom.

    • Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • With little strength or force

    • slightly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Slenderly; delicately.
    • He was slightly built, but tall.
  • To a small extent or degree.
    • He weighed slightly less than his wife who was a foot shorter.

    Synonyms

    * (to a small extent or degree) a little, marginally, somewhat

    Antonyms

    * (to a small extent or degree) quite, very